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Visible to the public Thwarting Themida: Unpacking Malware with SMT Solvers

Submitted by TimTh on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 1:02pm. Contributors:

Presented as part of the 2013 HCSS conference.

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Visible to the public Using Neuroscience to Explain User Responses to Malware Warnings

Submitted by Katie Dey on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 10:33pm. Contributors:

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We are planning a research agenda looking at how people react to malware warnings. Prior research has shown that people ignore malware warnings. Our research will look at the neuroscience associated with subjects' identification, recall, and reaction to malware warnings.

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Visible to the public Malware Defense via Download Provenance Classification

Submitted by Katie Dey on Thu, 11/01/2012 - 2:57pm. Contributors:

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Modern malware developers make extensive use of sophisticated obfuscation tools, causing a steady decline in the detection capabilities of anti-virus (AV) file scanners. This motivates the need for new ways to detect malware without relying on the inspection of a file's content. As most modern malware are distributed through network downloads, we should aim to complement AV scanners with systems that detect malware files based on where they come from, rather than only considering how they look like.